Closed Bug 90509 Opened 23 years ago Closed 23 years ago

Proxy: redirection should use minimal # of connections (e.g. Persistent Connections)

Categories

(Core :: Networking, defect)

x86
Other
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 84264

People

(Reporter: benc, Assigned: bbaetz)

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Details

(Keywords: meta)

(did a weak dupe check, pretty sure this is unique...) based on Bug 83526: ------- Additional Comments From phil.anderton@t-mobil.de 2001-06-21 05:25 ------- I would like to see Mozilla comply unconditionally with rfc2616 8.1.4 at least when using persistent connections (HTTP/1.1) to a proxy - as the rfc says, "these guidelines are intended to improve HTTP response times and avoid congestion". I have a concrete example of Mozilla's behaviour causing congestion over a GPRS connection (low bandwidth, very high latency). Ironically, MSIE performs significantly better under the same circumstances by complying with the standard - not normally one of Microsoft's strongpoints. --- I'm putting this into bugzilla because I noticed that our SOCKS V5 implementation seems to open a SOCKS connection for every URL. Things like this cannot happen if we expect to scale our usage with proxy servers. Some proxy servers are process based, so this activity will carry high server overhead. Additionally, there is the risk of connection depletion because you can only have about 32k inbound connections for a single homed server. Even worse, we don't support multiple DNS A records for proxy settings, so we hard code our limitations.
I've added an URL for testing. This site contains 100 images, and takes about 50 times longer to download when using a proxy.
this is probably a dup.
Assignee: neeti → bbaetz
Yeah. dupe of 84264. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 84264 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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